Almost every single person listening to this podcast right now is doing so on some sort of personal computing device.
Many of the things that we consider part of a modern personal computer, windows, hyperlinks, a mouse, and a text editor, all were released upon the world in a single 90-minute demo in 1968.
The ideas were so advanced it would take over two decades before most of them found themselves in everyone’s homes.
Learn more about the Mother of All Demos and the birth of personal computing, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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